He did what???

i have a lot of things to blog about today. let me start at the beginning....

we chose the name talan makai because we liked both names. we were never really big on meanings of names, but now i'm not so sure. all throughout my pregnancy my dad kept asking us what talan's name meant. i kept saying i didnt know and getting irritated that he kept asking. i think i should have answered his question now.

when i was in the hospital with talan, brad had the task of calling everyone to let them know talan was here. i guess my dad had called him and asked once again what makai meant. brad went ahead and looked it up after he got off the phone with my dad. then i got a call in the hospital from brad. apparently makai is a japanese name. its meaning? hell. yikes right? but as he searched more he found it was also a hawiian name meaning toward the ocean. we figured we would go with the hawiian meaning.

a couple weeks after talan was born we got his social security card in the mail. i opened it and freaked out. the last 3 digits in his social security card coincidentally were 666. okay...getting freaky now.

i was telling brads mom this. she said how her mother in law had a fit when they named brads brother because his initials were bs. she then said was i was thinking. he lived up to those initials. she was warned and she didnt do anything about it, thought it was no big deal. is this my warning? what if i do nothing? is he going to grow up the same talan no matter what name he has?

to make matters worse we went and visited some distant relatives with brads family when they came into town. one of these distant relatives asked us how we came up with talan as a name. we said we heard it a while back and it stuck around. she then began to tell us about some sci-fi show with something to do with a mother spaceship and a baby spaceship named talan. i dont remember what it was about because all i can remember is the next thing she said. she said, "but dont worry, talan turned out to be an evil spaceship."

it gets freakier...

last night i was on the phone with brads mom. she said she was going through her filing cabinet and stumbled across brads brothers social security card. the same brother with the initials bs. turns out he has 666 on the end of his social security number too. what are the odds of that? i asked her if she was trying to make me feel better. she said she didnt know.

we were really glad to have talan blessed. it was a relief for me with all this weird stuff happening. and when brad gave talan his name during the blessing i felt like everything was going to be okay with him. i felt something tell me i shouldnt worry about it. i know it is just coincidences, but that is the freakiest of coincidences i've ever seen.